open-hearth process

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   a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace

   Broadersteel production

Questions about open-hearth process

What does open-hearth process mean?

open-hearth process means "a process for making steel using an open-hearth furnace".

Is open-hearth process a common word?

open-hearth process is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.